Future Transport Visions - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Published

June 2018

ISBN

978-1-912433-50-6

Author

Walker R, Greenshields S, Ognissanto F, Willis S

Pages

18

Reference

PPR864

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Autonomous Vehicles are in a developmental phase, largely driven by private organisations. These vehicles will however eventually be driven on the public highway – the responsibility for which rests with the relevant highway authority. An increasingly common question from highways authorities is “how do we prepare for autonomous vehicles?”. Currently, highways authorities provide hard infrastructure in the form of roads and signalling, which are interpreted by human drivers to inform their decision making; however with the introduction of autonomous vehicles very little is understood as to the infrastructure provisions and signage required for their decision-making capabilities.